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Forty-five-year-old Rebecca Flynn is a fit, energetic and healthy-looking mother of two. She has never smoked, she watches her diet and exercises. On the surface, she doesn’t appear to be someone who is at high risk for suffering a stroke. But over a three-year period starting in 2006, Flynn had ...

When Gordon Cooke began experiencing headaches and sleepless nights in 2005, he first thought it was stress related. He had just started a new job as the membership director at The Bridges Club in Rancho Santa Fe. But, he soon realized that his symptoms could be more serious.
As the headaches ...

On May 6, NBC 7/39 interviewed Scripps Clinic neurosurgeon Rene Sanchez-Mejia, MD, and a patient he successfully treated for an aneurysm using a minimally invasive technique called endovascular coiling. The patient is one of only a handful of people in the world to have undergone both open brain ...

Fifteen years ago, Tricia Chandler faced the possibility of losing her eyesight. At 24 years of age, and a new mother of a beautiful baby boy, Jake, the prospect was daunting. After multiple tests and scans, Tricia was told she had multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disorder where the body ...

by Kulreet Chaudhary, MD, Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla
One of the newest approaches to treating migraine headaches is also one of the oldest: making dietary and lifestyle changes designed to prevent, rather than just medicate, migraines.
For years, we have been treating migraines with ...

Physicians will now have more options in tailoring treatments for their patients at risk for stroke. In the trial of 2,502 participants, carotid endarterectomy (CEA), a surgical procedure to clear blocked blood flow and considered the gold standard prevention treatment, was compared to carotid ...

Eighteen-year-old Claire Cordua had her life saved twice in one day after having a massive stroke. A recent article published in the San Diego Union-Tribune tells Claire’s story and how her quick-thinking boyfriend and neurointerventional specialist Giuseppe Ammirati,MD, both saved her ...

For 18-year-old Claire Cordua, having a stroke was the furthest thing from her mind. Having just graduated from high school, Claire was enjoying a leisurely summer hanging out with friends, tutoring, babysitting and getting ready to head off to college.
All that changed on July 17, when Claire ...

Eighteen-year-old Claire Cordua had just graduated from Westview High School in Rancho Penasquitos. She was spending a leisurely summer hanging out with friends, tutoring, babysitting and getting ready to head off to college.
All that changed on July 17, when Claire suffered a massive stroke. Her ...